Politics

NNA – UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Sigrid Kaag, underscored the importance of the presidential statement issued by the Security Council on July 22, 2016 that stressed the necessity to elect a president for Lebanon, form a national unity government and hold the parliamentary elections […]

NNA – “Change and Reform” bloc leader, Deputy Michel Aoun chaired on Tuesday the bloc’s weekly meeting in Rabyieh. FPM’s head, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Jebran Bassil said following the meeting “when we defend the National Pact, we defend all Lebanese – Christians and Muslims.” […]

Threatened by Islamic extremism, Christian and Jewish groups in Turkey are growing more fearful amid increasing terror attacks and the government’s state of emergency following a failed coup attempt, representatives of the minority communities told VOA. Christian and Jews represent about two-tenths of one percent […]

LONDON — The West must step up its efforts to combat and counter the information war being waged by its opponents, according to NATO officials. They warn that countries like Russia are exploiting the freedom of the press in Western media to spread disinformation. The […]

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton arrived at the first presidential debate of 2016 tonight in a dead heat in some polls, and very close in most every poll. The first debate, tonight at Hofstra University, ended with a similar result as these two candidates battled […]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is confident that the close bonds between Israel and the U.S. will continue regardless of who wins November’s presidential election. “The relationship is so strong between Israel and the United States of America that whoever is elected, she or […]

On Friday, Japan received its first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Given that one of the Pentagon’s own models caught fire on the very same day, can Tokyo expect similar setbacks? Japan’s Air Self Defense Forces (JASDF) received the JSF as part of an elaborate celebration […]

Despite a small lead in polls, Hillary Clinton faces a more daunting challenge than Donald Trump in Monday night’s debate, politics experts say. To woo all-important undecided voters, she’ll need to overcome negative perceptions by presenting herself as a personable candidate with a vision for […]

Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said on Saturday that no one can fool him into thinking that Christians are not marginalized in the government, vowing to continue defending their rights. “Our fight is not political, factional nor partisan, however we refuse any equation which allows the […]